no internet connection
an i user Acronis (I am not even sure whcih product to use) to back up and replace the system drive (boot drive) on a Windows XP machine which doess not have access to the interent? (this is a recording studio PC that has never been allowed on the internet; all updates have been done via "sneaker net".)
thank for the help.

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Dupres - since you have no internet connection, if you purchase the 2016 standard version, that will save some money. You can then create offline bootable recovery media that will allow you to backup, recovery and or validate backups offline (even outside of Windows). You can create this media from the Acronis application as an .iso that can be burned to disc, or directly to a USB flash drive that will be made bootable by Acronis.
Additionally, the Acronis application itself allows you to create and restore backups from within Windows. As long as you're able to get into Windows this works well too, and doesn't require any internet access - just local storage space for your backups (like a local network drive or USB external drive). Just be sure to familiarize yourself with the offline bootable media backup and recovery procedures too - if you can't get into Windows (windows doesn't load, drive failed, etc), you'll need this to restore to another disk or to restore to the original disk outside of Windows.
How to backup within Acronis loaded in Windows
How to backup with the offline bootable media
Ho to restore with the offline bootable media
This one does the entire thing with offline bootable recovery media - although a bit drawn out and some bad music at times, the video process is very good at showing the entire process for a backup and restore using nothing but the offline bootable media.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw-YoKl24G4
At 2:14 he is powering off his computer and then powering up and booting into his Acronis offline bootable recovery media.
At 2:52 he uses his manual boot override menu and selects the Acronis bootable recovery media (not Windows)
At 5:57 he finally gets around to booting into the True Image application of the bootable recovery media - before that he was showing some of his other tools on the media (not really pertinent up until this point).
At 6:30 he talks about some of the tools in the Acronis utility (one of which can initialize a brand new disk if need be)
At 7:55 he explains the difference between a full disk/partition backup and a file/folder backup and proceeds to configure his full disk backup - this is probably the key portion you need
At 13:08 the backup starts running - skip this...
At 19:20 he shows how to recover from the image with the offline bootable recovery media.
At 20:35 the recovery starts
At 24:40 he reboots the system, no longer using the Acronis Bootable media and it boots into Windows via the restored image that was just recovered.
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I start True Image 2016 to do a clone. Choose source and destination, wait a bit, and rebood. The Acronis Loader starts up, throws and error message on the DOS screen (to fast to read it) and then auto reboots.. This is an up to date Win7 machine, Internet conncetion is fine. Fully paid full version. Error message from log is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<log uuid="" product="True Image" version="19.0" build="6027" >
<event id="1" level="3" module="400" code="2" time="1460922127" message="No Internet connection." line_tag="0x54350D6C76523752" >
<error>AQIAkAFSN1J2bA01VE5vIEludGVybmV0IGNvbm5lY3Rpb24uACRtb2R1bGUATgAAAAAAAAAAAA==</error>
</event>
<event id="2" level="3" module="10" code="1003" time="1460922487" message="Computer restart is required Note that the operation will be canceled if you choose not to restart your computer now. " />
Previous version worked like a charm, until it didn't and that's why we upgraded to 2016 which didn't help.
Advice?
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Duncan,
You should start your own topic (thread). Piggybacking on other threads can get overlooked.
Clones should be performed entirely while booted from rescue media. So, you should create "Rescue Media" (DVD/CD or USB), boot from rescue media, then perform the clone. If this doesn't work, please start your own topic. Thanks.
Also, you are using an older version of ATI 2016. You should download and install the latest version, which is build 6559.
FtrPilot
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I had this issue on multiple of my PC's running Acronis and I finally found a solution Acronis Tech support was not able to help.
"C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts"
Add to HOST File
69.20.59.80 acronis.com
This solved my issues Acronis tech support spent hours reading from a script no help etc
But this solved it. On all 5 PC's.
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